For nearly 50 years, China has placed straw grids across its deserts; desertified land is now shrinking by over 1,000 sq km a year, but scientists say the fight is far from over

Desert control worker Yin Yuzhen walks along sand dunes covered by grass checkerboard that’s part of desertification control efforts at the Engebei Ecological Area near Ordos in northern China’s Inner Mongolia province on Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Across the deserts of northern China, a quiet, repetitive movement has played out for…

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Singapore turned wastewater into drinking water: How Singapore has treated the sewage water into liquid gold through NEWater, achieving a sustainable supply that exceeds World Health Organisation standards | World News

For a small island with no natural groundwater, Singapore’s water self-sufficiency is remarkable. By looking ahead to climate change, the nation has become a global example of sustainable water management. This success is built on two pillars called the ‘deep tunnel sewerage system (DTSS)’ and ‘NEWater’. The DTSS is like an underground highway, using gravity…

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Scientists cut climbing vines from a damaged Borneo forest. Its canopy then grew three times faster, and the method may cost 10 times less than tree planting

Dipterocarp forest at the Danum Valley Field Centre. Borneo’s tropical forests, dominated by trees from the Dipterocarp family, have some of the highest canopies in the world, with some trees reaching 100 meters Simply cutting back aggressive climbing vines in logged tropical forests allows the tree canopy to recover three times faster than planting new…

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Iran says 30 civilians killed in US strikes as Trump warns of ‘hitting them harder’

Representative Image (Source: Reuters) Iran said more than 30 civilians have been killed in recent US strikes on southern Iran, as US President Donald Trump warned that Washington would target Iranian power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran returns to the negotiating table.Government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said on X that the strikes had killed…

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‘Next week comes bridges, power plants’: Donald Trump says US strikes on Iran to escalate in three days

Trump says US strikes on Iran to escalate in three days US President Donald Trump convened a high-level situation room meeting on Wednesday (local time) to discuss a major expansion of military operations against Iran, with officials weighing strikes beyond the ongoing campaign around the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reported citing three sources familiar with…

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Scientists warmed the same forest soil by 5°C for 37 years; in the fourth decade, microbes began releasing carbon once thought safely locked away

It’s not just humans that are at risk of extinction due to global warming, it’s the Earth, too. In research conducted over a period of 40 years, scientists have uncovered evidence that challenges long-held assumptions about forest soils.While on the first glance, the Harvard Forest seems like an ordinary woodland filled with oak trees, there…

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Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos may have enough money to buy entire countries, but they cannot buy their way into this exclusive club on Florida’s ‘Billionaire Bunker’

The country club on Miami’s Billionaire Bunker is so exclusive that even Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos just walk in Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on huge waterfront estates on Miami’s Indian Creek Island, American tech billionaires face one surprising reality. The island’s social centre, the Indian Creek Country Club, follows a strict…

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In 1622, a Spanish ship sank off Florida carrying silver and gold, but divers have just found the first silver bar from the wreck in nearly 30 years | World News

Off the coast of Key West, a crew of treasure divers just pulled up something that had not come out of the water in almost thirty years. Working the wreck site of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank in a hurricane back in 1622, divers with Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions recovered…

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‘Kick Argentina out’: Why over 10 million people signed petition against Messi’s team in FIFA World Cup

With eight goals so far, Lionel Messi is the joint top-scorer with France’s Kylian Mbappe Controversy over FIFA’s alleged favouritism towards Lionel Messi and Argentina refuses to die down, even as the tournament heads into its business end.Ahead of the defending champions’ semi-final clash against bitter rivals England, an online petition has been launched demanding…

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